Filthy Thieves!lovehonorlifeSeptember 4 2006, 06:04:51 UTC
My lab had the same problem. People would steal anything out of my drawer. Food, silverware, office supplies, CDs. That last one led me to by a lockbox just for that purpose. It's been worth it just to see or hear about people trying to raid the thing open it up, to pull it out and fiddle with it just to walk up and go... "Can I help you?" Nobody can get a natural 20 on their Open Locks roll faster than I appear. Amazing that there are so many people with degrees, and yet know one can pick even the simplest lock. Wankers.
But the $20 lockbox is the ultimate F.U. to co-workers who steal your sh*t.
Even though I like the HP books, I think Rowling sometimes just can't stop herself from going "Oh, look at how cute and novel things from the wizarding world are!" or spending too much time on subplots that really don't need as much space as they get.
The whole S.P.E.W. thing in book four had me wanting to hit my head against a wall. The movie was right to cut all of that out.
Thirdly, did we really need another reason to think Sirius Black was a bad guy? Much like Snape in Book Six, Harry already has plenty of reasons to hate Black as it is. Tossing in this revelation is almost a waste of time, since Harry would have already wanted Black taken down just for working for the guy who killed his parents. Adding this on top doesn't even add anything, really. This is one of the problems I have with Rowling's writing. She just doesn't know when to stop. A character can't just have one horrible thing happen to them, the angst must come in buckets. A character can't just have had a bad family life, he had to have a family full of Voldemort sympathizers, run away from home at sixteen, been disowned, have his younger brother killed by Death Eaters, had his best friend killed (and blamed himself for it, of course), been locked up in his smelly ancestral home with an evil House Elf for company, and then killed by drapery. Oh, and he probably died a virgin as well. And that's just the peripheral angst, not the One Big
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That is all very true, but there sort of is a point to giving us all that information on how Sirius was the logical choice for a secret keeper and how the pitiful little Peter was just a hanger-on who could only hope to be as awesome as they were *ick*. All the teachers loved James and Sirius, but like Fred and George, they weren't quite as great as they thought they were and it destroyed them. Notice, the teachers don't even mention the fourth boy in the group though he was a Prefect in his time. Then again, not standing out was probably all he ever wanted. Not sure what my point is anymore.
These things apparently don't discriminate, and an eleven year old kid would suit them just as well as an escaped prisoner. Even if they wanted Black specifically, it doesn't sound like they have any special ability to track him. That is probably why Dumbledore didn't want them to come and search for Black inside the school.
Thirdly, did we really need another reason to think Sirius Black was a bad guy? Much like Snape in Book Six, Harry already has plenty of reasons to hate Black as it is. Tossing in this revelation is almost a waste of time, since Harry would have already wanted Black taken down just for working for the guy who killed his parents. Adding this on top doesn't even add anything, really.
Actually, I think Harry's self-centered enough that he actually *needs* the personal connection - Sirius betraying his family by breaking the trust of the vow, Snape yelling at him for not listening in class, to have a moment of angsty crisis. If it isn't about him, it isn't worth fretting over. Pretty much a typical kid.
Thirdly, did we really need another reason to think Sirius Black was a bad guy? Much like Snape in Book Six, Harry already has plenty of reasons to hate Black as it is. Tossing in this revelation is almost a waste of time, since Harry would have already wanted Black taken down just for working for the guy who killed his parents. Adding this on top doesn't even add anything, really.
Actually, until this revelation, Harry didn't really care that Black was after him. I think at this point, he's so used to Voldemort trying to kill him that another bad guy joining in on the fun was no big deal. The difference between Black and Snape is that Harry gets a reason to hate Black in the same book that he's introduced to the readers. It takes six books before Harry gets a real reason to hate Snape, so all his hatred before that was just him being stupid.
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But the $20 lockbox is the ultimate F.U. to co-workers who steal your sh*t.
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That's why you need to take prestigue class that allow you to take a 10 on checks like that. A ten should be enough for a simple lock box. ;)
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The whole S.P.E.W. thing in book four had me wanting to hit my head against a wall. The movie was right to cut all of that out.
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These things apparently don't discriminate, and an eleven year old kid would suit them just as well as an escaped prisoner. Even if they wanted Black specifically, it doesn't sound like they have any special ability to track him.
That is probably why Dumbledore didn't want them to come and search for Black inside the school.
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Actually, I think Harry's self-centered enough that he actually *needs* the personal connection - Sirius betraying his family by breaking the trust of the vow, Snape yelling at him for not listening in class, to have a moment of angsty crisis. If it isn't about him, it isn't worth fretting over. Pretty much a typical kid.
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Actually, until this revelation, Harry didn't really care that Black was after him. I think at this point, he's so used to Voldemort trying to kill him that another bad guy joining in on the fun was no big deal. The difference between Black and Snape is that Harry gets a reason to hate Black in the same book that he's introduced to the readers. It takes six books before Harry gets a real reason to hate Snape, so all his hatred before that was just him being stupid.
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